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Tim
Dor-Lomin
Jan 11 2008, 10:52pm
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The man is proof that hobbits still exist.
Great, where are we going?
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carrioncrow
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Jan 11 2008, 11:31pm
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I like that choice just fine. There are plenty of fine choices.
One strike against him is that neither his voice nor face resembles Ian Holm.
Maybe that sort of continuity break isn'yt a big deal depending on what the grand scheme is for these new films
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N.E. Brigand
Gondolin
Jan 12 2008, 12:45am
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FarFromHome
Doriath
Jan 12 2008, 10:16am
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but he gives an impression of "out-of-shape"-ness somehow. Perhaps not chubby, but a bit flabby. I think that would suit Bilbo's character pretty well - maybe better than actual chubbiness, since we now (since the advent of cheap but fattening fast food) tend to associate overweight with being poor rather than with being comfortably well-to-do like Bilbo.
My main reservation about Martin Freeman is that he's already played Arthur Dent, who I think of as a kind of Bilbo character himself - dragged from his comfortable bourgeois existence and thrown into a dangerous world where everything is unfamiliar and he has to find his feet. So it might feel like a reprise of sorts, unless he could find a new and different way to approach Bilbo.
...and the sails were drawn up, and the wind blew,
and slowly the ship slipped away down the long grey firth;
and the light of the glass of Galadriel that Frodo bore
glimmered and was lost.
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orcbane
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Jan 12 2008, 11:06pm
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Strange, thinking we might be looking at Bilbo
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I am not familiar with the actor, but he certainly looks the part really quite well. I did have in my mind that Bilbo would look older, and some of his personality seemed to have a wisedom that came from age. But I could get over those things in about 8 seconds if the actor does a good job with their own characterization.
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grammaboodawg
Elvenhome
Jan 13 2008, 2:07pm
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and I think he'd be great!! :D
 
Trust him... The Hobbit is coming!
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StevieRayVaughanFan
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Jan 13 2008, 8:59pm
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I'm probably just having a brain fart, but why can't Ian Holm play Bilbo again. I mean, from the moment he gets the ring in the hobbit to the beginning of lotr he doesn't age a day, right? Ehhh, maybe not. That's just what's been going through my mind lately. Please clarify this for me. I feel like an idiot because I'm not seeing anyone else bring this up.
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Tim
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Jan 13 2008, 9:12pm
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Bilbo is in his early 50's in the book, which is young-middle-aged in Hobbit terms. Ian Holm is approaching 80. Even if they fixed him up with special effects, the role is going to be fairly demanding physically and I don't think he'll be up to running around fighting goblins.
Great, where are we going?
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Silverlode
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Jan 13 2008, 9:24pm
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In FOTR Bilbo "hadn't aged a day", but by the time filming starts on The Hobbit, it will have been nearly 10 years, and Ian Holm has. And even in that one brief scene in FOTR, they had to give him an "artificial facelift" of sorts to remove wrinkles, etc. So you'd have him playing a character that he had to be made up to look younger for 10 years ago, and in a much more strenuous role!
I loved Ian Holm as Bilbo, I thought he was wonderful. But I don't want to see every review of The Hobbit making a deal out of how elderly he was or looked in this prequel. That would not be good.
I proposed a possible solution to this problem here.
Silverlode
"Of all faces those of our familiares are the ones both most difficult to play fantastic tricks with, and most difficult really to see with fresh attention. They have become like the things which once attracted us by their glitter, or their colour, or their shape, and we laid hands on them, and then locked them in our hoard, acquired them, and acquiring ceased to look at them.
Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else [make something new], may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds. The gems all turn into flowers or flames, and you will be warned that all you had (or knew) was dangerous and potent, not really effectively chained, free and wild; no more yours than they were you." -On Fairy Stories
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StevieRayVaughanFan
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Jan 13 2008, 11:58pm
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Oh, okay. I didn't know that about the "artificial facelift" thing in FOTR. Thanks for the info! Now I understand. Thanks again.
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